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[skulltini]

k so lemme get this striahgt
stright* godamnit
fuck it u kow what i mean
but yea earth is razzed and we got our asses saved by some ~mysterious force~ or somethin?
Roxy, let me handle this. You’re far too excitable to handle this properly.
As far as I know, SBURB was supposed to save the world, but we are clearly not in the game. We didn’t enter it, at the very least. We are somewhere that is not of our home.
Which was going to be destroyed regardless, really.
jaaaney i got this, god!!!
LMAO oops this isnt my color
doo dee doo I’m Jane and i need to stop bein such a tightass
oh shit dirk and jake
u 2’d bettr b ok n safe somewhere or im gonna b rly upset n mad at u :(
ROXY!
Ugh, wait. This is needlessly frustrating.
And stop touching my chest! You have your own!
Dirk, Jake. Or anyone here at all, I’m not picky. Can any of you tell us our location, and how we got here? Anything pertinent to the situation.
also collers
collars*
wtf is up w/ them?
I think that would count as pertinent to the situation.
just gettin it out there, janey
also
honk wonk ;)
olsmxlsmcn
ROXY.
STOP. TOUCHING. MY. BREASTS.
:)
And stop using my color! You’re going to confuse everyone.
cant stop wont srop <3
y r we still typing when were right next to each other?
I’m...not really sure. But we are. And now nobody is going to want to help us!
Because there are already so many shenanigans.
shooosh janey shooooooosh
any1 wanna help us out w/ a few answers?
We would most appreciate it.
And please stop stroking my face. It’s kind of strange.

[ooc: Tags will be coming from both skulltini and worststrider!]

Comments

[givesyouaboner]

Roxy. Jane.
I'm not sure if I'm relieved or not to see that you're here.
When I first arrived here I spent weeks looking for you two and Jake. It didn't take long at all to come to the conclusion that it was better off that no one else was here.
There are things here that are much worse than what we dealt with at home.
Fuck, at least with the Baroness we knew what we were up against.
Or at least, more so than the people who run this place.
In this regard I wish you two were back home.
It's ironically much safer for you there.

[skulltini]

[She's so happy to see orange text she's not even going to question why he believes them about the Baroness finally. People have said he was here but the confirmation is what makes it for her.]

jesus christ dirk
where are you???

[givesyouaboner]

Second floor corridor.
What was going on before you came here?

[skulltini]

i just got done talking to jane n i was going outside to get something
fuck it we're coming to find you and youre both getting the shit hugged out of you

[givesyouaboner]

_{[Yes, he's going to be needlessly nosy.]}

Something from the Carapacians or what?
I'll keep an eye out for you. But.
I don't think that's necessary at all.

_{[Who is he even kidding; he'd love a hug.]}

[skulltini]

carapace? wtf is a carapace?
forget it lemme find an eleleator or stairs or sth

[givesyouaboner]

Your response is a little disconcerting.
Ugh, whatever. We'll talk about it when you're here.

[worststrider]

Oh, goodness!
I'm so glad to see you here, Dirk. If only Jake was here as well!
And you believe me now! This is so great, gosh.

[givesyouaboner]

My point stands that he's better off on that island than here.
The more pressing issue at the moment is:
Jane. What are you even talking about.

[worststrider]

Jake lives with the Carapaces. I think you're a tad confused...
The Batterwitch! You never believed me about her.

[givesyouaboner]

Jake lives on an island filled with monsters. Roxy lives with the Carapaces.
Jesus fuck, Jane, you've been skeptical about the Baroness the entire time and have insisted that it's a just an urban legend.
The fact that you're insisting it's the opposite is almost funny.
Except it's not funny.
At all.

[worststrider]

You're the one who has everything backwards!
I mean aksl;nkals;ffffffff

[Sorry Dirk, she's being dragged away from the terminal now.]

action;

[skulltini]

[SHE SURE IS BEING DRAGGED TO THE ELEVATOR AND THEN DOWN TO THE SECOND FLOOR.]

action

[givesyouaboner]

_{[Dirk stares at the computer screen for a moment leaning back in the chair and rubbing his temples. Something's not right about this, but he's entirely too hopeful, too excited, too relieved to see two of his best friends that he's not seeing the completely obvious.]}

action;

[worststrider]

[Jane splutters, trying to get Roxy to stop, or at the very least slow down.]

Won't you wait? Geez!

action;

[skulltini]

Come on, Jane! Dirk is on the second floor and I already promised him a group hug!

[She's impatiently hitting the second floor button, rocking on her heels and keeping a tight grip on Jane's hand. She's meeting two of her best friends in the entire world in the same day, oe can't blame her for being excited.

It hasn't even completely processed that this Dirk might not be hers.]

[givesyouaboner]

_{[The longer he sits there, the more impatient Dirk gets. It's a combination of excitement and apprehension all at once. Finally, he drags himself out of the chair and leans against the wall in the hall, where he has a decent view of the elevator from a distance.]}

[worststrider]

What if he's not our Dirk, Roxy? There's already an alternate version of my Bro! And he didn't understand anything I was talking about!

[Jane, on the other hand, has processed that and accepted it as fact. There's a sick, sinking feeling in her gut, and she's wary of meeting this man that calls himself Dirk.]

[skulltini]

He's still Dirk, Jane! [Roxy takes off her glasses frames and rubs her hand over her face, swallowing hard.] He knows us even if it's not us. He could be our friend even if he's not Dirk Crocker.

[The elevator dings and the doors open and Roxy is out of there, a streak of scrawny legs and long blonde hair.]

[givesyouaboner]

<sub>[Dirk's known Roxy for what feels like all of his life. He's webcammed and watched over her dream self on Derse. This is something different entirely. He sees her running toward him and he's not even sure how to react.

But when he sees the length of her hair it finally hits him. And he can feel nothing but bitter disappointment, well hidden beneath his poker face.]</sub>

[worststrider]

[Jane should give up trying to reason with Roxy. Can't she see that him being someone else's Dirk changes everything? He knows his own Jane, and his own Roxy, and now they're here and they're a huge disappointment.

She follows the girl, adjusting her shades and trying to look as calm as she can.]

[skulltini]

[Reasoning? With Miss brb-I'm-going-to-go-check-out-the-crumbling-ruis-near-my-bedroom? Nice try, Jane.

Roxy is latching onto Dirk the moment he's within range, arms around his neck and face shoved right into his chest. She meant what she said- even if he's not their Dirk, he's still Dirk. And she's happy to consider any Dirk a friend no matter what his last name.]